Tidbits
A bunch of short random entries:
We were told to get all our meetings with the public done this week because there might be a new rule next week that we are not allowed to meet with the public.
The New Orleans team is on a four week extension. They were supposed to finish up all their work at the end of March, now they have till the end of April. Unfortunatly, for the past 7 days they have been without a leader. The head bosses removed the Team Lead, but, have been unable to agree about who should be the new team lead. Hence, everything is on hold, even though they are on a very tight time frame.
In a normal disaster, there is roughly one state rep for every FEMA public assistance person. Here, there is one state rep for every 50 FEMA public assistance person. (Public assistance provides money to local governments to rebuild damaged facilities).
Jefferson Davis County put out a request for bids for debris removal and signed a contract with the debris removal company that had one of the most expensive proposals. What does the County care, FEMA pays 100 percent of debris removal costs, at least in this disaster. Well, FEMA balked at the excessive charges. The county and the trash removal company, suspecting this would happen, wrote the contract to say, our rates will be x, but if FEMA refuses to pay the whole thing, we will not charge the county. Rather fishy.
Debris piles take so long to get picked up that you see people sprinkling bleach on them. In normal times, you water plants. Here and now, you bleach the debris.
We were told to get all our meetings with the public done this week because there might be a new rule next week that we are not allowed to meet with the public.
The New Orleans team is on a four week extension. They were supposed to finish up all their work at the end of March, now they have till the end of April. Unfortunatly, for the past 7 days they have been without a leader. The head bosses removed the Team Lead, but, have been unable to agree about who should be the new team lead. Hence, everything is on hold, even though they are on a very tight time frame.
In a normal disaster, there is roughly one state rep for every FEMA public assistance person. Here, there is one state rep for every 50 FEMA public assistance person. (Public assistance provides money to local governments to rebuild damaged facilities).
Jefferson Davis County put out a request for bids for debris removal and signed a contract with the debris removal company that had one of the most expensive proposals. What does the County care, FEMA pays 100 percent of debris removal costs, at least in this disaster. Well, FEMA balked at the excessive charges. The county and the trash removal company, suspecting this would happen, wrote the contract to say, our rates will be x, but if FEMA refuses to pay the whole thing, we will not charge the county. Rather fishy.
Debris piles take so long to get picked up that you see people sprinkling bleach on them. In normal times, you water plants. Here and now, you bleach the debris.
posted by JNA | 9:40 PM
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